According to the data released by the Italian steel producers' association Federacciai, in the first four months of the current year Italy's steel imports from non-EU counties totaled 1.885 million metric tons, down 46.7 percent, while its steel exports to non-EU destinations amounted to 1.928 million metric tons, up 23.7 percent, both compared to the same period of the previous year.
Products | Imports | Exports | Balance | |||||
Jan-Apr 2011 | Jan- Apr 2012 | Change (%) | Jan- Apr 2011 | Jan- Apr 2012 | Change (%) | Jan- Apr 2011 | Jan- Apr 2012 | |
Ingots and semi-finished products | 1,139 | 902 | -20.8 | 54 | 71 | +31.5 | -1,085 | -831 |
Long products | 249 | 160 | -35.7 | 448 | 654 | +46 | 199 | 494 |
Flat products | 1,990 | 686 | -65.5 | 534 | 682 | +27.7 | -1,456 | -4 |
1st manufacturing products (*) | 134 | 113 | -15.7 | 460 | 448 | -2.6 | 326 | 335 |
2nd manufacturing products (**) | 27 | 24 | -11.1 | 63 | 73 | +15.9 | 36 | 49 |
Total | 3,539 | 1,885 | -46.7 | 1,559 | 1,928 | +23.7 | -1,980 | 43 |
(*) Seamless pipes, welded pipes, forged bars, cold drawn sections and bars, drawn wire, cold rolled strips, welded sections, drawn wire.
(**) Flanges, pipe fittings, mining sections, diamond plates, pig iron powder
Units of measurement are thousand metric tons